Posted on 04/22/2020 12:34:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York state issued a blanket do-not-resuscitate directive last week instructing first-responders not to try to revive patients without a pulse amid increased call volumes and lack of resources during the coronavirus public health crisis, according to a report.
Paramedics were previously told to attempt to resuscitate a patient found in cardiac arrest for up to 20 minutes, the New York Post reported.
The new order is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a memo issued last week by the state Department of Health.
The memo insisted similar guidelines have been issued “in many areas of the U.S. as well as other locations throughout the world.”
“These changes are based on standards widely agreed upon by the physician leaders of EMS Regional Medical Control Systems across NYS and the Medical Standards Committee of the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council,” a health department spokesperson said in a statement.
This comes after the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York, which oversees the city’s ambulance service, instructed paramedics last month not to bring patients whose hearts could not be restarted at the scene into hospitals already overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. That directive meant first responders could still try to revive patients at the scene for up to 20 minutes.
“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, the president of Local 2507, Uniformed EMT’s, Paramedics & Fire Inspectors Union, told the Post. “Our job is to bring patients back to life. This guideline takes that away from us.”
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Sounds like lawsuit city.
My NYC lib friend today posted how can they do this? I posted - Because you live in a state where an live born aborted baby can then be murdered. There is no love and regard for life in your state.
If it saves just one life.../s
A single lawsuit would cost tens of millions. Imagine a thousand all across the state. You’re talking about bankrupting the entire state due to something unconscionable, illegal, and medically unethical. Comrade Cuomo should be given a Pinochet rode for this.
Roses are red
Soylent is green
Get to the shelter
It's COVID-19
It’s a guideline only, personal judgment should always have the final say.
so, what is the estate tax rate in NY?
up to 16%
6 years ago, I was revived. I’ve live a better life with my 2nd chance. Oh, did I mention I pay a lot of taxes too?
Love your comment...
I agree. @20 minutes in, I am probably flying somewhere near Tahiti.
Having to return to NY (where I currently reside) is not something I would embrace.
:)
...when your obamacare death panels get found out and disbanded... You have to take your contempt for the proletariat to the streets.
Death Squads!
That rhyme is brilliant!
The grizzled old paramedic who taught some of the ACLS courses I took said that during his long career in detroit he got credit for saving a couple thousand folks who had been in cardiac arrest. He then said that he knew of only one patient who left the hospital neurologically normal and a few that were discharged to nursing homes, the rest died in the hospital after some varying period of time. If you are in full cardiac arrest outside of a hospital you are probably going to die no matter how hard they pump on your chest..(If they are doing it right they will probably break some of your ribs.)
Triage over hospital space and yet that space is not universally overwhelmed across the city, and there is still a 3000 bed temporary hospital ward at the Javits convention center. Meanwhile NYC told the Navy they could remove from a NY dock their 1,000 medical ship.
But oh, lets not try to save non-Covid-19 patients who are just short of being revived from a heart stopping occasion. /sarc
If PPE equipment is fine for the hospital, it can be stored in the EMS vehicle and quickly donned when trying to restart a heart.
We have seen the Covid-19 death numbers for NYC first responders. It is less - as a % of those in that category, than for the NYC general population.
To what extend did EMS union power have on the city making this DNR policy?
Hey predatory lawyers out there, fresh meat coming your way!!!!
the socialists will need to keep their death worship in check or they’ll run out of tax payers and all the survivors will have to work harder.
“Democrat run (insert big city name here). Where life is cheap.”
At least it rhymes, unlike the current one. Ijits. *sigh*
Are there any lockdown protests in the Rochester/Syracuse area slated? I’m in FB jail until 5/5...
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